Tarot

Not only a myth but a joke. The joke is that there is no language called Eskimo. It is a family of languages referred to as Eskimo-Aleut languages that covers a spectrum of dialects over the Arctic regions. Since Eskimo can generically refer to Aleut, Yupik, Alutiq, Inuit, Greenlandic and all the dialects, if you add up all the words for snow in all these languages then you will surely exceed 50 but it's kind of a linguists phrase for a helluva friggin lot of words!

Lewian is right about all this. English has more words but most are synonyms. Think about how many ways you can say big: large, huge, enormous, colossal, gigantic, mammoth, immense, massive, ginormous, elephantine, vast etc. Although there are shades of meaning they basically mean big or large.

In German you have groß, schwer, wichtig and a few others but not nearly as many

Correct that German fuses words together where in English we put a space between compound nouns often: ice cream, television set, repair kit etc even though they are really one concept.

Try learning Navajo or Zulu or Cherokee. Every concept is a particle and can be strung together. In Inuit you can make whole paragraphs into one word. Same with Finno-Ugric languages such as Finnish and Hungarian. English requires a series of descriptive extras to make a word whole whereas there are 50 words for snow in Eskimo! Likewise European language have pretty much been cleansed of higher spiritual terms insofar as they need to borrow from languages to stock the vocabulary. There was no avatar, akashic, Buddha, prana, asana, ayurveda etc before it was adopted into the European vocabulary stock whereas other languages they are woven into the concepts of the culture through words. We have lost those as the occult practices have been held back and only given to those who seek them out in mystery schools. That means that many mainstream languages of the West have been sterilized to fit the agenda of those who wish to create obfuscation. This is a totally different matter in law though. Older English terms which made the language much richer are still used ubiquitously. Archaic terms like whereby and other prepositional constructions as well as a rich lexicon of Latin terms makes legalese much more precise than colloquial English which is indeed more expressive in a conversational manner. German is very much a technical language which is why it is perfect for science and technology.

Why would you think that all languages are the same in this respect? If you look close enough, you can always find differences. I indeed think that German tends to be more descriptive and English works (maybe just slightly) more through metaphors and allusions. The ubiquity of compounds in German has to do with that. A compound is basically a description put together from other terms.

Only have a minute to respond. European tongues are languages of conquistadors which seems to coincide with intentional obfuscation of meaning. I.e. words have two meanings, secondary contexts etc.

If however you delve into indigenous languages ranging from Native American to African and even ancient Sanskrit and its derivatives, words and concepts are much more precise and offer no chances of ambiguity as the focus of cultural development didn't revolve around control of the masses. This is an extreme generalization of course. Even German is much more precise than English. Where an English sentence can be interpreted many ways due to context, German almost always makes it quite clear what the actual meaning is.

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All languages do, for the most part and the Romantic languages are the worst in this aspect, since there are subtleties of grammar and language that the Italians might use that the Portuguese don't for example, and it all adds up to a bit of confusion about the same thing ... it's like you are all around one tree but everyone's description will be different and in different languages.

This is a difficult thing to get over ... but conceptually, it is the same thing ... but we think that THE BARDO is any different than all the other books, or what the original BIBLE was about, since that book has suffered the worst translations EVER, and in the various different translations it does not even say the same thing about various events!

This is one of the most difficult things about translating anything to those languages ... however, these days, due to the Internet, English seems to be leading the way, and I think it is helping show folks how the parallels exist on these books ... but it's gonna be a long day in hell before anyone tries to compare some Aleister Crowley to The Bardo, and to the Aztec Indians mythology, or Aborigene mythologies, all of these much older than the Greek horrible translations which are one of the biggest cases of turning people away from their "source" than anything else in literature ... but we don't care anymore! The similarities are astounding, given the different "paths" ... but we only see these things as completely separate internal process ... and while, YES, we are all different, in the end, the majority of the inner stuff has similarities, with the problem being that we are not capable of keeping track of it properly or learn to take notes from it!

siLLy puPPy wrote: ... Of course such disciplines like Tarot card reading are also corrupted to seem like mere entertainment rather than legit sources of self-discovery. If one is open to mind expansion then such things as Tarot cards aren't even necessary. It's just one tool out of many for self-psychological explorations.